Visual discrimination of real objects and pictures in pigeons

Animal Learning and Behavior

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 185-192

  Watanabe, Shigeru ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; PIGEON; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0030990016     PISSN: 00904996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03199057     Document Type: Article

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